Values, Prosperity, and the Talmud: Business Lessons from the Ancient Rabbis

This insightful book offers business advice that has endured for
thousands of years. While business fads come and go, the ancient
lessons of the Talmud are timeless, profound, ethical, and
practical–and they’re for everyone. Values,
Prosperity, and the Talmud is a concise guide to this proven
philosophy of business. Beyond basic money-related matters, it
includes the Talmud’s advice on complex issues of
employer/employee relationships, partnerships, competition, and
much more. Here, you will learn how to run a successful business,
negotiate with style, earn the loyalty of your employees, sell
products successfully, advertise effectively, and make higher
profits, all within an ethical and moral framework.

LARRY KAHANER is an award-winning journalist, lecturer, and
consultant, and the author of nine books that have been translated
into a dozen languages. He is a former Washington staff
correspondent for BusinessWeek, reporter for Knight-Ridder
newspapers and a founding editor of Communications Daily. He
currently is Washington Editor of Fleet Owner magazine. He has
written for InformationWeek, the Christian Science Monitor, the
International Herald Tribune, the European, and Management
Technology. He has been a guest on many shows including Larry King
Live!, CNBCs Management Today, NPRs All Things
Considered, and the Motley Fool Radio Show.
For more information go to www.talmudbook.com or contact the author
at info@talmudbook.com.

The Talmud, says Kahaner, is a "handbook for today's business
world": a reminder of balance in a workaholic culture, a treatise
on personal responsibility and a call to charity in a society that
seems driven by greed. In this book, Kahaner mines the ancient
wisdom of the Talmud for advice on how to prosper ? but to do so
ethically. He begins with discussions of the "spirituality of
money," claiming that wealth can be a positive force if it is used
wisely, and then argues that work is a holy act. Other chapters
take up various topical issues: treating workers fairly so that
they will in turn do their work more productively; being
scrupulously honest in business dealings; recognizing that
education is a lifelong process; and giving to charity. Kahaner
draws on contemporary business examples as well as ancient wisdom
to demonstrate that "doing good" and "making good" often go hand in
hand. (August. 8) (Publishers Weekly, June 30, 2003)

Help is available from just about everyone. Scan Amazon.com and
you can find investment and business guides that purport to tell
you how to win big, according to the principles of Sun Tzu,
Machiavelli, Napoleon, Julius Caesar and probably Br'er Rabbit. You
can also invest according to Jesus Christ and, now, take business
lessons from ancient rabbis. Here you get the Talmud's take on
employee-employer relationships, partnerships, negotiations and
more, all with the aim of turning an ethical profit.
(Barron's, October 6, 2003)

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